Transcription of Catalan Broadcast Conversation

The paper describes aspects, methods and results of the development of an automatic transcription system for Catalan broadcast conversation by means of speech recognition. Emphasis is given to Catalan language, acoustic and language modelling methods and recognition. Results are discussed in context of phenomena and challenges in spontaneous speech, in particular regarding phoneme duration and feature space reduction.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: TSD
• Authors: Henrik Schulz, José A. R. Fonollosa, David Rybach
• Keywords: Catalan Broadcast Conversation, Language Modelling Methods, Paper Describes Aspects, Signal Processing, TSD 2009